Michael Downs is a journalist and author of three books, including most recently a novel, The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist (2018). He co-wrote with Jim Hock Hollywood’s Team: Grit, Glamour, and the 1950s Los Angeles Rams (2016). His awards include a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Fulbright scholarship to study and work in Kraków, Poland. He directs the graduate program in professional writing at Towson University.

Michael Downs

The Last of the Menckenians: Struggling with an American Iconoclast

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Michael Downs is a journalist and author of three books, including most recently a novel, The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist (2018). He co-wrote with Jim Hock Hollywood’s Team: Grit, Glamour, and the 1950s Los Angeles Rams (2016). His awards include a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Fulbright scholarship to study and work in Kraków, Poland. He directs the graduate program in professional writing at Towson University.

Michael Downs

Articles

The Last of the Menckenians: Struggling with an American Iconoclast